This is a list of notable industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering who have established prominence in their profession.

A

  • Bud Adams – oil tycoon and owner of the Tennessee Titans.
  • Ravindra K. Ahuja – editor of journals Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks
  • Horace Lucian Arnold – American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist, and early writer on management

B

  • Ali Babacan – State Minister for Economy of Republic of Turkey (Middle East Technical University)
  • Carl Georg Barth – Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules
  • Leslie Benmark – known for work in engineering education, specifically accreditation
  • Karen Bursic – American professor and undergraduate program director at University of Pittsburgh

C

  • Alexander Hamilton Church – English efficiency engineer, accountant and early writer on accountancy and management
  • Richard W. Conway – Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus, at Cornell University
  • Tim Cook – Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. (Auburn University) aug 2011
  • Roger Corman – American film producer and director (Stanford University)
  • Nancy Currie – astronaut

D

  • John Dasburg – former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King (University of Florida)
  • John Z. DeLorean – former General Motors executive; founder of DeLorean Motors
  • W. Edwards Deming – forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
  • Mike Duke – President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)

E

  • Harrington Emerson – American efficiency engineer and early management theorist
  • A. K. Erlang – communications, queueing (University of Copenhagen)
  • Michael Eskew – CEO of United Parcel Service (Purdue University)

F

  • Adel Fakeih – Saudi Arabian politician
  • Giacomo Ferrari – Italian politician and mayor of Parma
  • Henry Ford – founder of the Ford Motor Company; revolutionized industrial production by being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to a production process
  • Joe Forehand – Chairman of the board and former CEO of Accenture (Auburn University)

G

  • Henry Gantt – inventor of the Gantt chart
  • Frank Gilbreth – time and motion studies
  • Lillian Gilbreth – time and motion studies (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Samuel Ginn – wireless communications pioneer; former chairman of Vodafone (Auburn University)
  • Joe Girardi – manager, Florida Marlins and New York Yankees (Northwestern University)
  • Eliyahu M. Goldratt – inventor of the theory of constraints
  • Carlos Ghosn – former CEO of Nissan, Mitsubishi, Renault

H

  • Joe Hardy – founder and CEO of 84 Lumber (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Homer Hickam – NASA engineer; author of The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, October Sky, Torpedo Junction and Back to the Moon (Virginia Tech)
  • Charles O. Holliday – CEO of DuPont (University of Tennessee)
  • Linda Hudson – President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc. (University of Florida)
  • J. Slater Lewis – British engineer, inventor, business manager, and early author on management and accounting.

M

  • William L. Maxwell – Andrew Schultz Jr. Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at Cornell University
  • Lydia Meredith – CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center
  • Francesco Merloni – Italian industrialist and politician
  • Captain Henry Metcalfe – American Army ordnance officer, inventor and early organizational theorist
  • Edwin Moses – world record hurdler
  • John Muir – founder of Sierra Club
  • Alphonse Munchen – Luxembourgian engineer and Mayor of Luxembourg City
  • Richard Muther – consultant; author of several influential books on plant layout and material handling

N

  • Shimon Y. Nof – Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University; creator and Head of the PRISM (Production and Robotics Software for Manufacturing and Management) lab

O

  • Taiichi Ohno – "father of the Toyota Production System", also known as Just In Time

P

  • R.K. Pachauri – Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director, Tata Energy Research Institute
  • Oscar E. Perrigo – American mechanical engineer, inventor, and early technical and management author
  • Guy Primus – COO of Overbrook Entertainment (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • A. Alan Pritsker – industrial engineer and teacher, pioneer of computer simulation languages (Purdue University)

Q

  • Jorge Quiroga – former president of Bolivia (Texas A&M University)

R

  • Jacob Rubinovitz – developer of instructional computer-integrated manufacturing and the robotics lab at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion

S

  • Jorge Serrano – former president of Guatemala
  • Shigeo Shingo – creator of SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) technique and Poka-Yoke (fail-safe) devices
  • William H. Swanson – President and CEO of Raytheon Co. (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

T

  • Frederick Winslow Taylor – leader of the Efficiency Movement and a champion of standardisation and division of tasks
  • Henry R. Towne – American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management
  • John Tregoning (1840s–1920s) – American mechanical engineer; wrote the first books on factory management
  • Laura Tremosa – first Catalan woman to qualify as an industrial engineer

W

  • Edward Whitacre, Jr. – Chairman of General Motors; former chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc. (Texas Tech University)
  • Clinton Edgar Woods – American electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor, manufacturer of automobiles, and early management

See also

  • Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

References